Artists Respond To Shootings In Paris With Cartoons

Illustrators posted images on the web deriding terrorists.

Cartoonists around the world have published sketches and cartoons on Instagram and Twitter in solidarity with those who were killed in the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Time magazine reports.

Among the artists are staffers of major world media organizations and independent artists from Australia, Brazil, India, France, Argentina and Denmark. Religious leaders and Islamic extremists are depicted in sketches. The artists express an objection against terrorism and defend freedom of speech.